You’re watching the wrong loop. Most bitcoiners understand they should hold. They know fiat is debasing. They understand the asymmetry. But they don’t fully grasp why they’re winning while everyone else is losing. The answer is in how we cycle through decisions. Lt. Dave Grossman called it the OODA loop. Understanding it changes everything.
WHAT IS THE OODA LOOP?
Combat is made of decisions. Lt. Col John Boyd broke down how winners and losers are separated in conflict through four stages that repeat endlessly.
Observe. You see what’s happening. You collect information. You take in the environment.
Orient. You interpret what you observed through your experience, culture, and understanding. You make sense of the data. Decide. Based on your orientation, you choose a course of action.
Act. You execute the decision. Then it cycles again. Observe. Orient. Decide. Act. Over and over.
The fighter who cycles through these stages faster than their opponent wins. They see the threat, understand it, make a choice, and respond before the enemy finishes observing. Speed through the loop equals dominance in real time.
But here’s what most people miss: the loop doesn’t guarantee victory forever. The opponent who breaks the cycle entirely wins without fighting. The one who gets trapped cycling faster and faster while making worse decisions loses through fatigue and compounding mistakes.
**THE FIAT OODA LOOP: TRAPPED IN ACCELERATION ** Fiat operators are caught in an endless cycle they can’t escape. Let’s trace it.
They observe constantly. Inflation data arrives weekly. Jobs reports drop monthly. The Fed announces policy changes. Interest rates shift. Market sentiment changes by the hour. Stock indices move. Crypto pumps or dumps. Global news cycles endlessly. There’s always something new to observe. The information is relentless and never stops.
They orient toward traditional metrics because that’s all they know. Is the dollar strong against foreign currencies? Is my portfolio outperforming the market? Am I beating inflation? These are the questions they ask. But here’s the trap: they’re measuring themselves against a system that’s actively working against them. Central banks are printing. Purchasing power is bleeding out daily. But the fiat operator doesn’t see the system itself as the problem. They see individual data points. Individual market movements. They’re orienting toward symptoms while ignoring the disease.
They decide based on fear and greed because they’re reacting to information flow. Market drops 20 percent? Sell. It seems like the safe move. Market rallies hard? FOMO in. Everyone else is making money. New economic policy announced? Reposition the portfolio. Maybe this will save us. Interest rates rising? Shift to bonds. Maybe this is the answer. They’re making decisions in real time based on incomplete information and emotional pressure. There’s always another variable. Always another reason to change course.
They act constantly. They trade. They rebalance. They hedge. They move money around. They switch between asset classes. They adjust their allocations. They pray the central bank knows what it’s doing. They hope the government will fix things. They do things to feel like they’re in control.
Then the loop cycles again. But this time faster. More frantic. More desperate. Because nothing’s working. The inflation data shows prices still rising. The portfolio is still underperforming. Fiat is still losing value. So they observe harder. They orient more aggressively. They decide more frantically. They act more desperately.
This accelerates. Every cycle is faster than the last. Every decision is more emotional. Every action is more reactive. The fiat operator is caught in a loop that speeds up infinitely. They can’t get off. They can’t stop. The system demands constant participation. The market demands constant attention. The fear demands constant action.
And the entire time they’re cycling faster and faster, the underlying problem never changes: fiat is still being printed. Central banks are still debasing. Purchasing power is still bleeding out. The system itself is broken. But they can’t see it because they’re too busy cycling.
THE BITCOIN OODA LOOP: THE BREAK
Bitcoin holders operate differently. They broke the cycle.
They observe once. They look at the reality clearly. Central banks print without limit. They always have. They always will. Fiat loses purchasing power year after year. This is observable fact. You can measure it. You can prove it. Governments run deficits. Banks expand money supplies. Inflation follows. It’s not debatable. It’s not theoretical. It’s happening right now and it happened every year for decades before that.
They orient toward mathematical truth. Bitcoin has a fixed supply. 21 million coins. That’s it. No printing. No exceptions. No government override. No central bank can change this. No policy can alter it. The code is the law. The math doesn’t lie. The orientation is locked and it doesn’t change because the underlying reality doesn’t change.
They decide once. I’m holding Bitcoin. I’m not trading it back to fiat. I’m not selling it because the market moved. I’m not abandoning it because the Fed announced something. I’m not abandoning it because Bitcoin dropped 30 percent. That decision is made. It doesn’t change when the market moves. It doesn’t change when traditional finance crashes. It doesn’t change when the government tries to regulate it. It doesn’t change when media says it’s dead. The decision was made based on observable reality. The observable reality hasn’t changed. The decision stays.
They act by doing nothing. They hold position. They accumulate when they can afford to. They don’t rebalance. They don’t hedge. They don’t panic sell. They don’t chase rallies. They don’t watch price charts obsessively. They don’t re-orient based on market movements. They don’t make new decisions based on new information. They hold.
Then they exit the loop. They’re no longer cycling. They’re waiting. They made the decision. The fundamentals haven’t changed. So they wait.
THE ASYMMETRY: WHY ONE WINS AND ONE LOSES
This is where dominance becomes clear.
Fiat operators are trapped in an endless accelerating loop. They can’t stop observing because the market never stops moving. They can’t achieve stability in their orientation because fiat keeps debasing and the system keeps changing. They can’t make one decision and stick with it because the system demands constant reaction and the market punishes anyone who goes idle. They’re exhausted. They’re losing ground daily. Every decision they make within this system makes things worse because the system itself is broken.
Bitcoin holders broke the loop. They made one decision based on one truth. The truth doesn’t change. So the decision doesn’t change. Now they just hold. No constant observation of price charts. No endless reorientation toward Fed policy or economic data. No emotional decisions based on market movements. No frantic action to feel like they’re in control. They’re at peace.
Every time a fiat operator cycles through their loop, they leak energy. Every panic sell is energy lost. Every FOMO buy is capital wasted. Every night spent staring at charts is sleep lost. Every portfolio rebalance is transaction costs paid. Every hedge is insurance on a system that can’t be saved. They’re burning themselves out while simultaneously holding an asset that’s debasing against a system they can’t defeat.
Every time a bitcoiner does nothing, they gain relative equity. Fiat is debasing in their hands. Bitcoin isn’t. That’s not trading skill. That’s not market timing. That’s not luck. That’s just physics. The math works while they sleep.
THE KILL SHOT: WHY FIAT’S LOOP IS ALREADY BROKEN
Here’s the brutal truth: the fiat system’s OODA loop is broken by design.
Central banks will keep printing. They have to. The math demands it. Government spending exceeds revenue. Deficits accumulate. Someone has to buy the debt. When no one will, the central bank prints. This cycle has no off switch. It repeats forever until the system collapses.
So fiat operators will keep cycling. Keep observing. Keep orienting. Keep deciding. Keep acting. All within a system that’s mathematically guaranteed to fail. They’re not just in a fast loop. They’re in a loop with no exit. The only question is how many cycles happen before it breaks.
Bitcoin’s loop is already closed. The decision is made. The orientation is locked. There’s nowhere to go but hold and watch fiat burn itself out.
They’re still fighting. You already won. You just have to not lose by getting back in the loop.
CLOSE: STAY ABOVE THE CYCLE
Stop watching price charts like they matter. Stop reorienting toward Fed policy announcements. Stop making new decisions based on market movements. You already made the decision. The fundamentals haven’t changed. The currency is still debasing. Bitcoin is still fixed supply. Reality hasn’t shifted.
The fiat operators need you back in their loop. They need you panicking. They need you watching. They need you making emotional decisions. They need you active and desperate. Don’t give it to them. Stay above the cycle. Keep your stack. Let them tire themselves out while the currency debases in their hands.
The victory isn’t exciting. It’s not glamorous. It’s not something you can brag about on Twitter every day. It’s just patience while they exhaust themselves fighting a system that can’t be beaten from within.
You already broke the loop. Now just stay broken.